Greeting
Since our founding in 1951, we at Yukigaya Chemical Industry Co. have made steady progress as a dedicated manufacturer of special foams. At the time of our founding, Yukigaya initially produced natural rubber cushioning (e.g. for mattresses and bra pads) and packings, supporting the lives and livelihoods of the Japanese people in an era of austerity.
In the 1960s, Yukigaya began to produce cosmetic sponges and reached a major turning point in 1976. In that year, we succeeded in replacing natural rubber, which had been the material from which cosmetic sponges were made, with synthetic rubber. Through this change in our thinking, Yukigaya came to be recognized as having the largest share of the market of any company worldwide.
Ever since, Yukigaya has continued to develop its markets throughout the world, serving the diverse needs of cosmetics manufacturers pursuing worldwide sales strategies. Through this, Yukigaya has never settled for the status quo, instead emphasizing its ongoing work to develop new products.
We have also succeeded in taking the knowledge and experience we developed in the cosmetics market to apply them to completely new fields to develop new products. Specifically, Yukigaya’s elastic materials have played an essential role in automobile components, construction materials, audio equipment, and other products. We are also currently striving to expand into the environmental sector.
We at Yukigaya Chemical Industry Co. continuously work to create new value with our products, working our absolute hardest on research and development, both day and night. In the future, we will continue to work in pursuit of a special distinctiveness for our products, to create valuable elastic products suited to a variety of purposes, and to achieve a richer, more plentiful society for us all.
Mission statement
Yukigaya Chemical Industry Co. works diligently and robustly to contribute to a richer society through the development of advanced technologies and through the quality of its products, so that all people can live a fulfilling life.
Yukigaya Chemical Industry Co. began just after the end of the Second World War, mindful of the peace and aiming to build an industry to serve the purpose of peace. We have the earnest desire to bring happiness to people’s lives through our development of new and revolutionary products in any age.
It is our conviction that the essential mission of a manufacturing company is to be one step ahead of the times, supplying consumers with the products that they will use every day as demanded by the era in which we live, as well as the consumers of that era. We believe it is through this that we make great contributions to building a truly rich society for all of us.
Employee Code of Conduct
Healthy business activities and permanent development
- Contributing to the lasting development of enterprises
- Employees always have consciousness as good business people and social workers, strive to pursue appropriate profit through freedom, fairness and healthy activities and contribute to the lasting development of the company.
- Respond to the expectations of our shareholders and other stakeholders
- Employees should encourage their own duties, improve ingenuity and constant innovation, improve performance from faithful performance of duties, meets the expectations of each stakeholder.
Development and provision of safe, secure and high-quality products and services
- Strive for safety management of products and services
- Employees are to ensure safety at each stage from research and development to manufacturing, storage and distribution of products, services etc. that each group company manufactures, imports, or sells, give quality certificates top priority.
- Record and manage various data, strive to ensure traceability
- Employees purchase raw materials for which safety has been confirmed, in addition to preventing the prevention of harmful / toxic substances and foreign substances, record and manage various data related to raw materials, manufacturing, delivery etc., strive to ensure traceability.
- Thoroughly manage hygiene
- Employees thoroughly carry out 5S activities, strive to ensure thorough maintenance and maintenance of sanitation management of manufacturing facilities and equipment.
- Deal appropriately and quickly, when an important quality accident occurs
- Employees will deal with consumer safety first considering internal regulations and rules, when an important quality accident concerning products occurs. In addition, while considering important quality accidents as problems of the entire group and making efforts for prompt information reporting, will cope with each department concerned appropriately and promptly.
Respect for human nature
- Strive to improve our own abilities and develop human resources
- Employees have pride and responsibility for work, strive to self-study, and try to improve our own abilities by working hard together. Along with the boss take the initiative fulfill its own duties also, strive to train each employee with respect to their aptitude and ability.
- Strive to maintain and improve a safe and hygienic working environment
- Employees strive to improve physical and mental health, strive to maintain and improve safety, comfort and sanitary work environments.
- Respect human rights, will not do unjust discrimination
- Employees eliminate unfair discrimination against sex, nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, physical disability and sexual harassment.
Compliance with social norms and promote fair corporate activities
- Comply with social norms, strive to maintain social order.
- Employees relates to their actions as a member of society as a corporate citizen, comply with laws, corporate ethics and social norms, and strive to maintain social order.
- Comply with company regulations such as employment rules
- Employees comply with internal regulations and rules including employment rules, keep the order of the public and private, maintain order in the workplace, and do not act to defile the face of the company or cause damage.
- Comply with laws such as Commercial Law, Antitrust Law, Foreign Exchange Law and insider trading regulations
- Employees comply with laws such as the Commercial Law, the Anti-Monopoly Law, the Foreign Exchange Law, etc. in each field of manufacturing, sales, purchasing, promote business activities based on fair and free competition.
- Thorough management of confidential information, strive to protect intellectual property rights
- Employees fully recognize the importance of company confidential information, thoroughly manage their management, will not be used or disclosed illegally or inadvertently.
In particular, will properly manage confidential information such as product development and any information contained in personal computer etc., prevent information leakage outside the company.
Also strive to protect intellectual property rights, do not infringe or misappropriate the rights of others. - Will not provide unfair profits
- Employees will not engage in cheating, donation, entertainment or gift to civil servants, politicians, etc. Also, entertainment and gifts for business partners will respect moderation on social norms.
Moreover, will deal with resolutely without giving up to unreasonable demands from antisocial forces.
Promotion of appropriate public relations activities
- Try to share information in our business activities
- Employees recognize the importance of mutual cooperation and communication, try to share various information in our daily business activities.
- Strive to improve corporate image
- Employees always act with a sense of conscience as a good sense of business people, and deepen our correct understanding and trust for our company through communication with outside parties, strive to improve corporate image.
Promotion of environmental conservation
- Strive to prevent environmental pollution
- Employees recognize the importance of environmental conservation, strive to prevent environmental pollution by complying with related laws and regulations.
- Strive to make effective use of resources
- Employees should make effective use of resources and energy used in daily activities, strive to reduce, reuse and recycle waste.
- Work on the development and manufacture of products with less environmental impact
- Employees should pay close attention to the environmental impact, work on the development and manufacture of products with as little environmental impact as possible.
Promotion of social contribution activities
- Strive to contribute widely, including the local community
- Employees deepen interaction with local communities, such as participating in regional events, in addition to promoting friendship and friendship with local communities, strive to contribute to society widely.
Promotion of overseas business rooted in the local area
- Abide by the laws and regulations of each country
- Employees will comply with relevant laws and regulations in each country, promote healthy business activities.
- Maintain and promote a friendly relationship with the locality
- Employees will actively communicate with the site, strive to respect human rights and understanding of culture and tradition, maintain and promote a friendly relationship with the locality.
- Contributing to local development, through business
- Employees will contribute to local development, through the creation and human resources development of employment due to business activities.
Yukigaya Chemical Industry Code of Conduct
Healthy business activities and permanent development
Group pursues healthy profit through healthy business activities, appropriately reduced this to each stakeholder, promote permanent development with companies.
Development and provision of safe, secure and high-quality products and services
Our group provide safe, secure and high quality products and services and value, by using special foam and its peripheral technology, think that contributing to society is an important role. Therefore, we comply with relevant laws and regulations, internal division of duties, and other defined behavioral limits, establish quality control system based on quality assurance first, endeavor to obtain maximum satisfaction from our customers.
Respect for human nature
The Group will provide opportunities for employees to fully demonstrate their abilities and develop human resources who respect individuals, work efforts to ensure workplace safety and hygiene will strive to create a workplace environment that is rewarding. We also strive for equitable treatment that respects individual aptitude and ability on personnel affairs. In addition, respect for human nature in all areas of business activities, will not do any acts that hurt individual severity.
Compliance with social norms and promote fair corporate activities
The Group is in compliance with related laws and regulations and social range and in-house regulations and rules, promote business development in a fair and free competition.
Promotion of appropriate public relations activities
The Group conducts public relations activities appropriately, strive to obtain correct understanding, evaluation and trust by providing accurate information on the business activities of group companies to the society in a timely, informal, splice and continuous manner.
Promotion of environmental conservation
The Group recognizes that the environmental impact caused by corporate activities affects the entire planet and recognizes that environmental conservation is an essential requirement for corporate survival and activities and actively reduces waste and CO2, promote environmental conservation activities by making effective use of resources and energy.
Promotion of social contribution activities
We respect the laws and regulations of each country, respect its culture and tradition, and contribute to local development through business activities.
Management roles and responsibilities toward realization of this Code and Guidelines
The President of the Group and the directors recognize that the realization of these norms and guidelines is their own role, we will thoroughly inform the stakeholders on the grounds of initiatives. In addition, we constantly grasp the internal and external voices, conducted the development of effective internal system, strive to thoroughly raise corporate ethics. When circumstances contrary to this Code and Guidelines occur, we will promptly announce our attitude towards problem-solving, try to investigate the cause - prevent recurrence. We also promptly and accurately disclose information and accountability, with clear authority and responsibility, strictly dispose of themselves at the committee formed by more than the executive officers excluding the parties.
Established November 1, 2016
OutlineCompany overview
| Name | Yukigaya Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. |
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| Founded | 1951 |
| Incorporated | November 7, 1952 |
| Directors | Nobuhiko Sakamoto, Chairman Noboru Sakamoto, CEO and President (Outside Director of SOMAR Corp.) |
| HQ address | Oi-Choyo Building, 6th floor 5 Chome-12-10 Higashioi, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0011 GoogleMap |
| Contact | Phone: 03-6718-4401 / Fax: 03-6718-4402 |
| Capital | ¥10 million |
| Businesses | Manufacture and sale of special foams Manufacture and sale of cosmetics tools |
History
| 1951 | Together with Satoru Sakamoto and engineer was established in Yukigaya-cho, Ota-ku,The organization and Yukigaya Chemical Industry YK was founded.Kuro Takahashi was dissolved to form a better, the Peace Science Laboratory Tokyo to produce and sell latex foam. They began to produce and sell latex foam cushions, bust pads, and toys. |
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| 1952 | The Peace Science Laboratory was dissolved to form a better organization and Yukigaya Chemical Industry YK was founded. |
| 1954 | Operations were expanded, and the company HQ and central factory were moved to Nakanobu, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo. |
| 1955 | Production and sale of industrial packings begun. |
| 1959 | Company HQ and central factory moved to Omorinishi, Ota-ku, Tokyo. |
| 1966 | Production and sale of cosmetics applicators begun. Mass production and sale of NR cosmetic sponges begun, the first such mass-production plant in Japan. |
| 1970 | Supertex Industries SDN. BHD. established in Malaysia. This became a production and sales hub for industrial products. |
| 1976 | Successfully developed NBR latex foam (jointly developed with Zeon Corporation). Production and sale of NBR cosmetic sponges (Yukilon sponges) begun. |
| 1984 | Mitsuhiko Sakamoto became CEO and President. |
| 1985 | Sales offices established in the USA, UK, and France. |
| 1987 | Yukilon Manufacturing SDN. BHD. established in Malaysia. This became a production and sales hub for cosmetic sponges. |
| 1993 | Plant established in Tsukuba. Once operational, the Omori plant’s production functions were transferred to the Tsukuba plant. |
| 1994 | Yukilon Shanghai Rubber & Plastics Co., Ltd. established in Shanghai, China. Once operational, this became a production and sales hub for cosmetic sponges. |
| 2000 | Production and sale of special polyurethane (Tera) begun. |
| 2003 | Thai Yukilon Co., LTD. established in Thailand. Once operational, this became a production and sales hub for cosmetic sponges. |
| 2008 | Production of cosmetics tools begun at Yukilon Shanghai Rubber & Plastics Co., Ltd. |
| 2013 | Nobuhiko Sakamoto became Chairman. Noboru Sakamoto became CEO and President. |
| 2014 | Production and sale of effluent treatment sponge carriers begun. |
Office guideOffices
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- Headquarters
- Address: Oi-Choyo Building, 6th floor 5 Chome-12-10 Higashioi, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo
Phone: 03-6718-4401
Fax: 03-6718-4402
Headquarters
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- Tsukuba Plant
As the Group’s core plant, the Tsukuba Plant is engaged in production for the Japanese domestic market, but it also houses the Group’s R&D Department. It is here that new products and technologies are born.
Address: 4663-1 Shimo-ota, Inashiki-shi, Ibaraki-ken
Phone: 0297-87-5821
Tsukuba Plant
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- Shanghai Plant (est. 1992)
- The Shanghai Plant mainly produces and sells cosmetic sponge puffs and packaged goods for the Chinese and American markets.
Shanghai Plant
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- Thailand Plant (est. 2002)
- The Thailand Plant mainly produces and sells cosmetic sponge puffs and packaged goods for the Thai and European markets.
Thailand Plant
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- Malaysia Plant (est. 1975)
- The Malaysia Plant mainly produces and sells PVA products, as well as sponges for medical and sports use.
Malaysia Plant
Global network
CSRCSR initiatives
We pursue our CSR activities on the basis of our founding mission statement, aiming to be a company that is as environmentally friendly as possible and contributes broadly to the development of local communities.
China: Educational assistance work
We work on educational assistance activities in China in order to help contribute to societies across the globe.
There are still many villages deep in the mountains of China that do not have schools. These activities aim to enable children in these regions to learn in the same ways as those in other regions.
Yukilon Educational Fund(est. 1998)
The Yukilon Educational Fund was begun in 1998 to enable promising children to receive an education. Through this fund, we pay for the cost of attending school for around 20 students each year.
Yukilon Promising Primary School(est. 2003)
The Yukilon Educational Fund was begun in 1998 to enable promising children to receive an education. Through this fund, we pay for the cost of attending school for around 20 students each year.
Energy conservation activities
At Yukigaya Chemical Industry Co., we follow an environmental policy for our manufacturing activities of being as kind to the environment as possible, and to have our presence welcomed by local communities. We have a social responsibility to make the most effective use possible of our earth’s limited resources. One of the major themes of the modern world is the reduction of CO2 emissions. With this in mind, Yukigaya contributes to the protection of the global environment through its operation of the following two energy conservation systems.
Solar panels( Government-financed )
We promote the effective use of electricity and the reduction of CO2 emissions by installing solar panels on factory grounds.
[FY 2009 Project for Supporting New Energy Enterprises]
Low-energy boilers( Government-financed )
We promote the reduction of heavy oil costs and CO2 emissions by installing low-energy boilers, aiming for the achievement of a zero-emissions plant.
[FY 2008 Energy Use Rationalization Business Support Program]